NPA provides Yacoob with documents

Johannesburg - The National Prosecuting Authority has provided retired judge Zac Yacoob with documents so he can begin his investigation into media leaks at the prosecuting authority.

"The NPA provided him with the documents yesterday," spokesperson Nathi Mncube said on Thursday.

He was responding to a report on SAfm in which Yacoob expressed concern about a delay in receiving documents from the NPA.

Yacoob told the broadcaster the NPA was meant to deliver documents to him within 48 hours, but had not.

According to the broadcaster, Yacoob doubted he could meet the three-month deadline in which to complete his investigation.

"It's getting less and less feasible because I said three months 12 days ago, and 12 days have been lost already because in those 12 days we haven't got the documents yet," he told SAfm.

"So as time goes on the three-months time limit becomes less and less doable and the problem is if I can't finish by the middle of October, I can start on this again only at the beginning of December, that's the problem."

In a statement at the end of July, the NPA said it had appointed Yacoob chairperson of a fact-finding committee to investigate allegations of the involvement of NPA employees in leaking information to the media and other parties.

They were authorised to enter any building occupied by any NPA employee, inspect and seize any documents, records and books related to the investigation.

In June, NPA integrity management unit (IMU) head Prince Mokotedi was suspended after a document on former prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach was leaked to the media. Mokotedi denied leaking it.

A day before his suspension, The Star carried a report on the IMU document which recommended that Breytenbach be criminally charged for corruption, misconduct, conflict of interest, fraud, and racketeering.

In the unit's report, Breytenbach is accused of soliciting a loan of $1m (about R11m) from businessperson Nathan Kirsh, a complainant in two cases she was prosecuting.

Breytenbach is also accused of accepting a R6.3m donation from Kirsh through the FW de Klerk Foundation. She left the NPA to join the Democratic Alliance as an MP.

Last week Thursday, Mokotedi resigned after being served with a formal charge sheet. The NPA did not disclose what charges he faced.

In a recent edition of the investigating newspaper on Fridays,i read an interesting article of exactly what the spytapes were.
They were the result of a full blown SAPS Crime Intelligence operation,dating back to 2003,called Operation Destroy Lucifer,targeting around 45 people in the NPA and Scorpions like Leonard McCarthy and Gerrie Nel.
Another interesting fact is that a former commander of Crime Intelligence,Mulangi Mphegho,at one point in the endless prosecutoral wars stated under oath that these phone intercepts reveal that the NDPP who decided not to charge Number One,Mokotedi Mpshe, had an affair with a prosecutor in Kimberley and that he alledgedly approved fraudulent travel claims by her in order to pursue the relationship with him.Nice blackmailing material don't you think?
Mpshe is still an acting judge in the Land Claims court 4 years after he left the post of NDPP and has never appeared before the Judicial Services Commission,where difficult questions can be asked.
In that article it is also clearly stated that Mpegho in 2007 approved an application to conduct phone and electronic intercepts of 6 targets on the basis that they are drug suspects.One of that suspects was Leonard McCarthy.
A certain Richard Mdluli also approached a certain Prince Mokotedi,head of the NPA "Integrity" Management Unit in September 2007,to ask for help in his investigation of Gerrie Nel,Mokotedi referred him to a certain Nomgcobo Jiba

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Made-In SA
2014-08-14 09:47:41 PM

Jiba of course had an axe to grind with Gerrie Nel,because he secured the conviction of her husband,an attorney by the name of Booker Nhantshi for theft of trust funds.She would later go to considerable lengths to procure an arrest warrant for Gerrie Nel.Jiba was also in frequent communication with a certain Lawrence Mrwebi,who provided an affidavit in support of Mdluli's investigation of Nel.Nothing came of any investigation of Nel,as we all know.Number One would later expunge the criminal record of Booker Nhantshi,and he was appointed to a government job.
Jiba was internally charged for her actions,but after a labour court case,Mpshe approved an out of court settlement and she was reinstated.
Off course Jiba took over as NDPP from Menzi Simelane,and Jiba and Mrwebi shielded Mdluli from prosecution even though a Hawks dossier implicated him in the theft of millions from the SAPS secret account.
As should be clear by now Number One appointed Mxolisi Nxasana because he thought he could control him.That after the DA threatened with a court case if Number One did not appoint a permanent NDPP.
When he turned out to be more independent and decided to charge Mdluli,his fate was sealed.
One of the many questions now is,what does Mdluli know to ensure him this kind of protection?

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Sakhiwo
2014-08-15 03:37:15 AM

NPA is a disaster from top to bottom.I don't trust them anymore.

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BLUESILVER2012
2014-08-15 04:53:30 AM

They have tried and failed time n time again to prosecute the woman..so they resort to mud slinging as throw enough and something will stick...in other cases, the people just resign and criminal investigations just....fade away...wonder is this yet again a race base vendeta, would appear so, not half the effort has been put into Zuma or Julius....this is but two 'men'....justice has two sides...politicians and everyone else.